Executives prefer men as bosses: Survey

NEW DELHI: Men are preferred bosses as they are faster in decision making and liberal in awarding functional autonomy to their subordinates, a survey by industry body Assocham says.

A survey on 'Preference of Bosses in Emerging Corporate Culture', in which about 2,500 executives participated, about 68 per cent of them showed preference for male bosses as they give more operational freedom at work, while the remaining 32 per cent did not have any preference.

According to the survey, 1,450 female and male executives would be too happy to have male bosses. Interestingly, Of the 68 per cent executives who voted for male bosses, two-third of them were female, while the remaining one-third were male, an Assocham spokesperson said.

The majority of executives who voted for male bosses, argued that women approach work with more emotion than men and their concentration towards work is not complete because of various factors such as motherhood that more often than not keeps them divided.

Consequently, neither the assigned work is accomplished nor job satisfaction derived by the subordinates and leads to breeding of discontentment among the juniors, the survey said.

Of the remaining 32 per cent of the respondents who had participated in the survey said it does not matter that the boss is a male or female; "The better the bosses, the longer the stability factor.

On working with strict bosses, majority of the executives said they would opt for an early exist as today there are immense opportunities available, the survey added.